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  GOD'S GREAT MASTERPIECE
  by Selwyn Hughes
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Summary: The Bible is God's masterpiece, written through the supervision
of God and the use of human channels.

Topics: "Biblical Inspiration", "Divine Authorship"
Scripture References: Psalm 119:105, Proverbs 30:5, John 10:35, 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21

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Selwyn Hughes emphasizes the unbreakable nature of Scripture in John
10:35, affirming his belief in the supervisal inspiration of the Bible.
He explains that God guided the writers of Scripture to ensure accuracy
and truth, protecting them from error and deceit. Hughes compares the
divine authorship of the Bible to the construction of St. Paul's
Cathedral, where various workers contributed but the ultimate
masterpiece belonged to Sir Christopher Wren. Ultimately, Hughes asserts
that while humans like Moses, David, and Paul physically wrote the
Bible, it is truly God's Word.

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"... and the Scripture cannot be broken ..." (v. 35)

For reading & meditation:

John 10:1-18

I said yesterday that I subscribe to the supervisal inspiration of the
Bible. I believe God led the minds and hearts of the writers of
Scripture to go to the right sources for information, to come up with
the required data, and in the process protected them from exposure to
error, deceit, or imposture. He supervised them in their research, in
their reporting, and when He spoke directly to them He was there also to
make sure that they received clearly the message He wanted to convey.
Ian Macpherson puts this truth most powerfully in his book The Faith
Once Delivered when he says: "As in the mystery of the Incarnation, God
linked Himself to humanity, so in the mystery of the inspiration of Holy
Scripture, God made use of human channels, yet He never surrendered His
Divine authorship or permitted the Book to become the word of man rather
than the word of God." Another writer, H. O. Mackey, put it like this:
"Who built St. Paul's Cathedral? So many masons, carpenters, iron-
workers, carvers, painters - and then there was Wren. He was not a
mason, or a carpenter ... and never laid a stone. What did he do? He did
it all. He planned it, inspired it with his thought." Mackey does not
intend to dishonor the workmen who toiled hard and long, but simply to
make the point that in the final analysis St. Paul's Cathedral is Sir
Christopher Wren's masterpiece. Who wrote the Bible? Moses, David,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, John, Peter, Paul, and many others. But whose book is
it really? It is God's.

O God, it is the entrance of Your Word that brings light and the neglect
of Your Word that brings darkness. Help me to expose myself more and
more to that light, so that I may walk through life with a sure and
steady tread. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

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